Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook COO who makes workplace discrimination quiver in its ugly shoes, took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday to tell everyone that gender stereotypes are still holding back working women, which is not okay. »1/27/13 4:00pm 1/27/13 4:00pm

In its ceaseless effort to "provide a safe environment for working women," i.e. keep the workplace entirely segregated, Saudi Arabia's labor ministry has ordered about 100 lingerie shops in the capital of Riyadh to close for having male staff members. »9/16/12 4:00pm 9/16/12 4:00pm

Today, NPR is featuring an interview with Lynn Povich, who worked at Newsweek in the 1960s and recently published The Good Girls Revolt, a book about how the women at Newsweek — then mostly researchers, fact checkers or mail deliverers — sued their bosses in 1969 for greater workplace equality. Povitch told inquisitor… »9/09/12 12:30pm 9/09/12 12:30pm

The U.K.'s Royal Veterinary College has decided that, since not enough white men are enrolling in its program, it ought to recruit them more aggressively. To that end, the college has included white men among the underrepresented minority groups that it targets in publicity materials, which have been specially crafted… »8/19/12 2:00pm 8/19/12 2:00pm

If you live in New York and you set your apartment on fire in some ill-advised (read: don't set your apartment on fire) effort to collect on a suspiciously bloated insurance policy you took out on your second-hand furniture, a firewoman — spellcheck does not, by the way, recognize this apparently alien expression —… »3/10/12 12:00pm 3/10/12 12:00pm

A new report on gender equality in the federal government has found that while "overt bias" is no longer rampant, "the vision of a workforce in which women are fully represented and utilized has not been wholly achieved." »5/26/11 10:12am 5/26/11 10:12am

Data showing women are 17 percent of equity partners at top law firms has elicited a predictable debate at Above The Law — blaming mothers, etc. More unusual: the writer's advice to women to refuse to work at male-dominated firms. »9/02/10 6:11pm 9/02/10 6:11pm